Do librarians have ruffle bums?

Well, this one does.

Found this and haven't been able to stop thinking about it.
Lizy needed one.
Like, so bad.

So I made it for her.
{probably the first of many}
And I had to add ruffles to her little bumsie.

Pretty sure it doesn't get any cuter.

I have a feeling a matching bow is on it's way...

How to build an "arm pit":

Start with a pretty cool husband.

then run inside because your arm waving didn't stop the rain, but made it rain harder.
Shoot.

We love our new "arm pit", as Mckinlay has named it, and we love Ty for being cool like that and building it. Are you as impressed with his mad bench making skills as I am? He surprised me with bench #1 when when I got home from Kentucky last week.

We're looking forward to many an outdoor night of roasted goodness.

Wanna come over?

Week in Kentucky

We spent the last week in Kentucky with these guys:

We feel pretty spoiled that a 4 hour drive means all the cousins can be together.
We had lots of fun playing outside, playing dress up, doing bubbles, watching movies, making and eating yummy food, fabric shopping sans kiddos and Alli and I even snuck out to see
Mary Poppins, which was completely supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!
If you have the chance, GO! And take me with you!
B-- you are a saint for watching all 4 kiddos!

Can wait til we get together next.

Easter Weekend

We had a great Easter weekend!

Here are the highlights:

Easter egg hunt #2 at the church. More fittingly named Easter-Egg-Mad-Dash that lasted about 2 mins, but still fun!

A quick trip to "Eggshelland".
No seriously. There is even a movie about it.
Check out the trailer.

At first I thought it was pretty crazy that people dedicated their life and time to this, now I think it's really sweet, especially after watching the youtube clip. I want a 'thing'! They have their egg shells, and I have my, what? Felt animals maybe?
{I can see Ty rolling his eyes.}


I digress.
The Easter bunny comes to our house on Saturday, so after naps, we got ready for him. We set our decorated eggs in our baskets and left the house to go to dinner. When we came home he (or SHE in our case -- thanks Krista for being a stellar Easter bunny neighbor) had hidden our eggs and left us fun things in our Easter baskets!
Looks like he enjoyed his carrots too!

Mckinlay was really thinking about the Easter bunny. That morning while we were in the cars she said:
Mck: Does the Easter bunny have a home?
Me: Sure he does.
Mck: Where is his home?
Me: I'm not sure. Where do you think it is.
Mck: Ahhh {pause} I think maybe it's in Africa. {thinks}
Yeah.
It's in Africa.

Later when she woke up from her nap first thing she said to me was:
"Does the Easter Bunny have pink feet? Like, Easter feet?"

"Sure honey. I bet he does have pink Easter feet."

Funny girl.

Every time she found an egg she'd say:
It was all pretty thrilling.

Sunday morning we had out 12th seim-annual Loveless General Conference Brunch. I can't believe it's our 12th?

I never seem to get pictures of the adults, but we had a crazy-fun house full of kiddos, and the food did not disappoint.
And we can't leave out these sweet girls. First, of many, neighbor twin photos. They are about 6 weeks apart.

Hope you all enjoyed your Easter weekend and General Conference. I love when Easter Sunday and Conference fall on the same day. It makes it ll seem more meaningful.

Now stop reading blogs and get out and enjoy the sunshine before it goes away! Sorry Utah friends. I think this is the first time Cleveland has had better weather than you.

Glorious Spring

We have had ridiculously gorgeous weather this week, like 80 degree ridiculousness.

We've been outside pretty much non-stop doing chalk, bubbles, riding bikes and scooters. I think I've been smiling non-stop too.

We kicked off Easter weekend with an Easter egg hunt with friends.
Don't let Mckinlay's grumpy mug fool you. She was pretty stoked for the hunt. She was so enthralled with the idea of hunting for eggs.
"Tell me how to hunt for eggs mom."

and she heart's ice cream.

*Remember Mckinlay's first ice cream experience?
Classic.

How does the expression go?

When life gives you a flat tire --
make a tire swing!